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Santa Maria, S., Llorente, B. (2018). DNA Recombination, Mechanisms of. In: Wells, R.D., Bond, J.S., Klinman, J., Masters, B.S.S. (eds) Molecular Life Sciences. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-1531-2_74

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